Although 25 years after the war the situation looks hopeless, we must never lose hope in the good people, the only thing that is left. The ability of one person to pity another is the greatest achievement of evolution, the origin of civilization, it is what distinguishes a human being from a beast. The ability to pity another was necessary for the development of the world as we know it.

We should be happy that we still have them, those good people willing to reconcile and work on reconciliation. And such good people live and work in the present Srebrenica, sometimes as a bass guitarist in a local rock band, a coach of a local football club, a worker in a local grocery shop, who gives you goods on credit.

Those common, open-hearted people are a grain of hope, that necessary ingredient of life that makes life here tolerable. They are reconciliation.